If the DVD you wish to convert is
encrypted, you'll also need to install
decrypting software.If you are having problems registering the software,
click
here.

1CLICK DVDTOIPOD is very simple to use. Insert a DVD
and
click the "START" button.

You can configure your software by clicking on the "Options"
button. There are hints (popup captions) available for
some options, which you will see when you hover the mouse
over the check box or title.

You will also find several
other options in the popup menu, which you can access by
clicking the right mouse button anywhere on the application.
You can open this user guide by clicking "?"
(help) button or by clicking the F1 keyboard key (while the
application is in focus).

If you need more information about how to transfer
movies files to your video device, you can refer to
our online
FAQ page. If you can't find your device listed,
please refer to your video device manual.

Figure 1.

The default settings will create a movie file with
optimal resolution, good video quality (Quality factor of 20) and small size. You can modify these
default settings in the Options window.

Zoom: The wide screen Zoom feature will crop (remove) some or all
of the horizontal black bars that may appear on a wide screen movie.

The example shown below (see Figure 3.) demonstrates each Zoom setting.
The default setting for Zoom is "Half"
which provides the best compromise between field of view and output
display utilization. Zoom capability is not provided for full screen
movies.

Note: The "iPod Touch" and "iPhone" have zoom capability built
into the hardware, so it's not necessary to use the "Zoom" option
on these devices. To zoom, tap twice on the device screen during
playback.

Resolution: The video resolution is automatically adjusted to fit
each zoom ratio. A higher resolution may result in better video quality.
If you are only viewing the movie on a hand held display, we recommend
you choose the lowest video resolution which will result in good overall
viewing and smaller file size.

Zoom (on a full screen (4:3) display):

Zoom: None

Zoom: Half

Zoom: Full

Figure 3.

Source:
Select the DVD reader or hard drive folder that contains the movie files.
The software will attempt to choose your DVD reader at start up. If
you have more than one reader, you may need to select the preferred
reader.

Destination Folder:
Select the destination where you would like the movie files stored.

Quality: Choose the quality factor (default is 20) which results
in the desired file size and video quality.

File Name: Choose the name of the output file. When episodes are
detected, a separate file is encoded for each episode. Each episode file
will have an episode number appended to the file name. Episodes will appear
grouped together in a sub-folder named after the 'File Name'.

Additional Options:

If you click the right mouse button
anywhere on the application, an options menu will be displayed as shown
below:

Refresh Source detection:
Re-scans the Source DVD. Use this if you change DVDs and the information
in the Options window has not refreshed to show the new source
material.

Toggle Log Window
visibility: Show or hide the log file window for the current
copy session. The log file contains information about copy settings and
DVD burning. NOTE: You can also open the entire log file
(including previous copy sessions) using the F8 keyboard key. This will
open the entire log file ("1clickdvdtoipod.log") as a
temporary file in Windows Notepad. This is helpful if you
want to quickly locate and save the log file to send to support in an email
attachment. It is important that you include this log file with your email correspondence when requesting
support.

Open Registration window: Launches the
Registration window where you can enter your Registration ID or offline
Activation Code. You can also determine the software version
number in the window title bar. NOTE: You can also use the F2
keyboard key to open the Registration window.

Enable popup Hints:
Show or hide the pop up hints that appear each time you hover over a
control on the "Options" window.

Enable update notification: Launch an internet
browser window to the website download page when a new version of the
software becomes available for download. We strongly recommend you
leave this option enabled to ensure you will be notified of bug fixes
and changes to CPRx which are essential to handle new DVD movies.

Turn off computer after encoding: Enable or disable automatic
shutdown of the computer after a successful encoding. This is useful
if you wish to leave the computer unattended to convert a DVD and you want
the computer to shut down after the encoding is completed.

Enable CPRx error correction: This option is enabled by default.
CPRx error correction is essential to deal with DVDs which have bad
sectors or bad structure. Many new DVD releases now require CPRx error
correction to copy correctly. We recommend you do NOT disable
this feature unless you have a third party utility which is capable of
doing it's own error correction in concert with 1CLICK DVDTOIPOD.

Warn before erasing output file: Enable this option if you want
the application to warn you before overwriting an output file that
already exists with the same name. This option is enabled by default.

Preferred Audio Language: Select one language as your preferred audio
language. When a DVD is detected, only the audio languages available on
the DVD will appear in the drop down list box. To set your preferred
audio language to a language which does not appear in the list box,
remove the DVD and select from the list of all possible languages. If
your preferred audio language is not available on a DVD, the default
language of the DVD will be selected automatically.

Preferred Subtitle Language: Select one language as your
preferred subtitle language. When a DVD is detected, only the subtitle
languages available on the DVD will appear in the drop down list box. To
set your preferred subtitle language to a language which does not appear
in the list box, remove the DVD and select from the list of all possible
languages.

If your preferred subtitle language is not available on a DVD, a warning
message box will appear offering you the option to choose a different
preferred subtitle language. Subtitles will only be encoded if the preferred
subtitle language is available on the DVD.

Note: In some rare cases, an original DVD will list subtitle
languages which are in fact not actually available on the DVD (you can
confirm this by playing the original DVD).

Enable Cinemascope Zoom on this DVD: Some DVD movies are
presented in widescreen formats which exceed the standard 16:9 format of
a widescreen television. These formats are often referred to as
"cinematic widescreen" or "anamorphic widescreen" and their
aspect ratios can vary between 1.85:1 up to 2.4:1. Even if
you select "Full Zoom" on these movies, you will still see
horizontal black bars above and below the image after encoding. If you
wish to reduce the size of the horizontal black bars even further, you can enable the "Cinemascope Zoom on this
DVD" option which will zoom the movie further. In most cases, if your DVD is presented in
cinematic or anamorphic widescreen format, it will say
so in text written on the back (toward the bottom) of the DVD box. This
option returns to it's default (unselected) state each time a new DVD is
detected.

Widescreen movie in a Fullscreen format: Some widescreen movies
are released on fullscreen DVDs. This is done intentionally to ensure
that the whole width of the original film is available for viewing, even
if it's viewed on a fullscreen television. Zoom is not available for
fullscreen movies (you wouldn't normally want to zoom an already cropped
fullscreen movie), but with these types of DVDs, you may wish to zoom
the widescreen movie contained in the fullscreen format. Enabling this
feature permits you to use the zoom options on this type of DVD.

Save Quality Factor: A Quality factor has been introduced to
enable you to select the video quality which suites your taste.
Increasing the video quality also increases the size of the file. Once
you select a Quality factor, any change to video Resolution or Letterbox
Zoom results in an automatic adjustment of the video bit-rate (bits per
second) to ensure the quality remains constant. If you wish to save your
preferred Quality factor, you need to enable this option. The default
Quality is 20.

Volume Level: The audio volume level for each mobile device is set
automatically. If you need to reduce or increase the default volume
level, you can do so using this option. Please note, each time you
choose a new mobile device, the volume level will be reset to the
default volume for that device.

Encode Movie for this DVD: The feature movie is detected automatically. If the program did not detect the
movie on your DVD, you can force the detection of the movie with this option.

Select Television Episodes: Television episodes are detected automatically. If the program did not detect
episodes on your DVD, you can force the detection of episodes with this option.

Select All Titles: Special case DVDs are detected automatically.
Any DVD which does not contain a feature movie or television episodes is
considered "Special". A couple of examples are: music video DVDs and
home made DVDs. If the program did not detect all the titles on your DVD, you can force the detection of
all titles.

Choose episode to convert: If you only want to copy a single
television episode (instead of all episodes by default), you use this
option to select a particular episode from the list of all episodes.

Select Application Language: This option permits you to select
the language that will be used on all windows of the application.

Save IFO files (for support): This option permits you to save the
IFO (navigation) files on the original DVD to a compressed file (in the
ZIP format) which can be sent to our support group to assist in
troubleshooting authoring issues on some DVDs.

The following are important for success:

If you are using a third party decrypting utility
(such as "DVD43"), ensure you have the latest version.

To ensure your DVD writer is able to read at maximum
speed, please ensure that DVD writer does not use a read
slowdown mechanism often referred to as "Quiet Drive",
which is designed to reduce drive noise when playing a
DVD movie. This mechanism will often reduce the read
speed to as low as 1X speed. Refer to your DVD
reader/write documentation to determine how to disable
this feature. Some manufactures have not provided
software to disable this feature and in these cases you
must download a modified (patched) firmware to disable
this feature.

If you encounter problems encoding a movie, please
refer to our online
FAQ page. You may also contact us directly for
support using our
Support link.